AIDS at 30 : a history / Victoria A. Harden.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 324 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1597972940 : HRD
  • 9781597972949
Other title:
  • AIDS at thirty
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.97/92 23
LOC classification:
  • RA643.8 .H37 2012
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.What Is This New Disease? -- 2.Searching for the Cause of AIDS -- 3.Clinical Research, Epidemic of Fear, and AIDS in the Worldwide Blood Supply -- 4.AIDS as a Cultural Phenomenon -- 5.AIDS Therapy -- 6.Communicating AIDS -- 7.The Global Epidemic -- 8.The Third Decade.
Summary: "Award-winning medical historian Victoria A. Harden approaches the AIDS virus from philosophical and intellectual perspectives in the history of medical science, discussing the process of scientific discovery, scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS and developed therapeutic interventions. Furthermore, her book defines AIDS as the first infectious disease to be recognized simultaneously worldwide as a single phenomenon."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-306) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.What Is This New Disease? -- 2.Searching for the Cause of AIDS -- 3.Clinical Research, Epidemic of Fear, and AIDS in the Worldwide Blood Supply -- 4.AIDS as a Cultural Phenomenon -- 5.AIDS Therapy -- 6.Communicating AIDS -- 7.The Global Epidemic -- 8.The Third Decade.

"Award-winning medical historian Victoria A. Harden approaches the AIDS virus from philosophical and intellectual perspectives in the history of medical science, discussing the process of scientific discovery, scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS and developed therapeutic interventions. Furthermore, her book defines AIDS as the first infectious disease to be recognized simultaneously worldwide as a single phenomenon."--Jacket.

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